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December 3, 2018

Together for 10 Million

April 2018 marks an important time in the work of the Education Above All (EAA) Foundation and its Educate A Child (EAC) programme. It is a milestone towards…

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April 28, 2018

Celebrating 10 Million Partners’ Meeting Report

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August 27, 2017

Ensuring High Quality Primary Education for Children from Mobile Populations: A Desk Study

Quality education is an enabling right and an effective means through which other rights can be accessed. While significant global progress has been made towards enrolment in primary…

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August 22, 2017

Case Study: International Rescue Committee's "Save for School" Program in Côte d'Ivoire

Educate A Child’s (EAC) primary objective is to contribute to significant and positive change in the lives of millions of children through quality primary education. Our focus is…

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October 6, 2015

Social and Economic Costs of Out of School Children in Colombia

The third EAC publication in its economics of out of school series, again developed in partnership with R4D, addresses the socio-political, health and economic costs of out of…

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October 6, 2015

Innovative Financial Services for Education

The current mandate of Educate A Child (EAC) is to support out of school children (OOSC) at the primary level in accessing, participating in and completing a quality…

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August 8, 2015

The Economic Cost of Out of School Children in Southeast Asia

This publication is the result of Educate A Child’s (EAC) project with UNESCO Bangkok, which seeks to eradicate obstacles, both in policy and practice, that would prevent children…

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July 14, 2015

Pricing the Right to Education

A lack of adequate finance stands in the way of achieving new education targets by 2030.

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April 28, 2015

Stories from our Project Countries

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April 28, 2015

Supporting Out Of School Children through Educate A Child

The evidence is clear: the costs of not educating out of school children far outweigh the investment necessary to provide universal primary education. Why? Education has ripple effects…

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November 4, 2014

A Quality Framework for OOSC

This paper defines and reviews the issues of out of school children and provides some pointers for assessing how programmes can support learning for out of school children.

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November 4, 2014

Indigenous Language and Education

The body of research that shows that young children learn best first in their mother tongue is indisputable. Yet, across the globe, education systems pay no, or little,…

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April 30, 2014

Four countries that achieved UPE: How Did They Do It?

Despite all the odds, some countries have managed to meet, or come close to meeting, their commitment to primary education as a universal right. How did they do…

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April 29, 2014

Perspectives on Practice and Policy - MALAYSIA

As of July 2013, the population of Malaysia was 29.8 million. Malaysia is a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country comprising of Malays and other Bumiputera of Sabah and Sarawak…

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April 29, 2014

Perspectives on Practice and Policy - BOTSWANA

The Republic of Botswana is a small landlocked country located in southern Africa. A British colony for 81 years, Botswana gained independence in 1966. Botswana’s population currently is…

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April 29, 2014

Perspectives on Practice and Policy - BRAZIL

Brazil was a latecomer to the cluster of countries with broad and open access education systems. The country worked hard and fast to incorporate the growing population of…

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April 29, 2014

Perspectives on Practice and Policy - LEBANON

Lebanon has been successful in increasing access and retention of children in school, as indicated by its primary school net enrolment rate of 94.9 percent in 2011.

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October 29, 2013

Costs of Not Educating OOSC (2013)

A graphic, prepared by R4D, that shows the high cost of not providing universal primary education.

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October 29, 2013

Benefits of Educating OOSC (2013)

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October 1, 2013

Barriers, Obstacles and Approaches Taken in Current EAC Priority Countries (2013)

A single graphic that lists nine barriers that keep children out of primary education and the different approaches that current EAC partners are using to overcome the obstacles.

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April 1, 2013

Exclusion from Education: the Economic Cost of Out of School Children in 20 Countries

The second publication from EAC that focuses on the costs of not providing universal primary education shows that the costs of not educating children significantly outweigh the costs…